City leaders held their first public meetings this week since voters approved the South Texas city’s incorporation.

Before SpaceX’s Starship lost control and exploded over the Indian Ocean during its ninth test flight, the 400-foot-tall megarocket blasted off from Texas’s newest city. Starbase, situated on 1.5 square miles of the Lone Star State’s southernmost tip in the Rio Grande Valley,

Elon Musk’s SpaceX-controlled town in Texas warned local residents that they might “lose the right to continue” using their property, according to a report. Starbase, formerly known as Boca Chica Village,